The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, July 07, 2007

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cabling firms making the most of data centre boom
Cabling firms are riding high on India’s data centre boom. For cabling firms, the data centre opportunity in India is expected to double by 2009. India is recording the fastest growth in the cabling industry at 22 per cent. ... More

INSIGHT
The high wage of success
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HARDWARE
TCS to tweak hardware capability
Chennai, July 6 Tata Consultancy Services is planning to enhance the hardware manufacturing capability that it got when it acquired Tata Infotech in July 2005.Mr S. Padmanabhan, Executive Vice-President in charge of global human ... More

SOFTWARE
FlexiWorks begins expansion
FlexiWorks, part of the Singapore-based Works Alliance Group, has embarked on an expansion programme across the country. The company is looking to appoint 30 franchisees before March 2008 in A and B class cities across the country. The company, ... More

INTERNET
Indians blog to motivate others: Survey
35% of Indian netizens blog compared to 75% of Chinese netizens More

Yahoo! invites entries for ‘emoticontest’
Bangalore, July 6Yahoo! is inviting users of instant messengers to submit their favourite expressions for its Emoticontest. The winners’ emoticons will be featured on Yahoo! Messenger worldwide.Nearly two-thirds (61 per cent) of ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
‘Industry must spend on academia’
Chennai, July 6 “Where are the teachers?,” asks Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, responding to the IT industry’s suggestions to start institutes to coach students ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Kaashyap Tech buys US co’s unit for $8.5 m
Kaashyap Technologies Ltd (formerly Kaashyap Radiant Systems) has acquired the consultancy division of the New Jersey-based Logistics Solutions Inc for a consideration of $8.5 million. The company funded the acquisition through a ... More

Rolta buying Canadian co Orion
The Mumbai-based Rolta has agreed to acquire the Canadian software firm Orion Technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company expects to generate around $100 million over the next three to five years by ... More

M-COMMERCE
NetXcell, Idea tie up for SMS product
Hyderabad, July 6 NetXcell Ltd, a telecom application services provider, has signed a pan-India agreement with Idea Cellular Ltd to provide SMS-based, value added services with the shortcode 5-9595. Idea mobile subscribers across 11 ... More

SECURITY
IT managers still clueless about securing information
Bangalore, July 6 One-third of all companies in India face threat of data loss by disgruntled employees. Papers and presentations on strategies, e-mails revealing roadmaps, sales pitches — critical information is being sold and bought ... More

EVENTS
Satyam plans ‘virtualising’ HR functions
‘Aim is to create a better organisation’ More

PEOPLE
New Trianz India HR Vice-President
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TRENDS
ARPU levels for cell firms close to ‘unviability’ mark
Alarm bells may have started ringing for mobile operators with the average revenue per user (ARPU) inching closer to the Rs 200-mark, below which operations are considered to be unviable. With mobile operators announcing a slew of tariff ... More

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